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  1. Israel, Palestine, and the Road to October 7: Dead End or Deadly Detour?

    Article • Current History, December 2024, University of California Press

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  2. Pessoptimistic Constitutional Analysis

    Article • Review of Middle East Studies, June 2024, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  3. Into the Abyss

    Article • April 2024, JSTOR

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  4. Who Has Governed Egypt-Ruler, Regime, or State? Egypt's Unrevolutionary 1971 Revolution

    Article • March 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  5. Autocrats Can't Always Get What They Want

    Article • January 2024, University of Michigan Library

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  6. 6. The Thorough Insinuation of the One State Reality into Palestinian Political Life

    Article • December 2023, De Gruyter

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  7. Introduction: What Is Israel/Palestine?

    Article • December 2023, De Gruyter

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  8. Judicial Review and the Jordanian Constitutional Court: False Start or Slow Start?

    Article • Arab Law Quarterly, August 2023, Brill

    Farouq Al-Shibli, Professor Nathan J. Brown

  9. Debating the Law, Creating Gender: Shariʿa and Lawmaking in Palestine, 2012–2018, written by Irene Schneider

    Article • Arab Law Quarterly, July 2023, Brill

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  10. Views: Who Speaks for the Egyptian Soul? The Tension between Rulers and al-Azhar

    Article • Rowaq Arabi - رواق عربي, May 2023, Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  11. The One State Reality

    Article • February 2023, De Gruyter

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  12. The One State Reality

    Article • January 2023, Project Muse

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  13. After Repression: How Polarization Derails Democratic Transition. By Elizabeth Nugent. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. 256p. $95.00 cloth.

    Article • Perspectives on Politics, June 2022, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  14. The poisonous metaphor of the people populism, authoritarianism, and post‐sovereign possibilities in evolving Egyptian constitutional orders

    Article • Constellations, May 2022, Wiley

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  15. Islam and the Arab Revolutions: The Ulama Between Democracy and Autocracy By Usaama al- Azami

    Article • Journal of Islamic Studies, April 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  16. Concluding Essay

    Article • Middle East Law and Governance, June 2021, Brill

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  17. Carl Brown (1928–2020)

    Article • Review of Middle East Studies, December 2020, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  18. Constitutions and citizenship

    Article • November 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  19. Introduction. Historical and Comparative Macrosociology of Middle Eastern Legal Systems

    Article • Oñati Socio-legal Series, October 2020, Onati International Institute for the Sociology of Law

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  20. Who or what is the wali al-amr: The unposed question

    Article • Oñati Socio-legal Series, October 2020, Onati International Institute for the Sociology of Law

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  21. The unsurprising but distinctive nature of constitution writing in the Arab world

    Article • October 2019, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  22. Constituting Constitutionalism

    Article • January 2019, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  23. Law and Revolution. Legitimacy and Constitutionalism after the Arab Spring

    Article • International Journal of Constitutional Law, January 2019, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  24. 4. THE ROOTS OF EGYPT’S CONSTITUTIONAL CATASTROPHE: The Necessity of Marrying an Analysis of Context, Process, and Text

    Article • December 2018, Columbia University Press

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  25. Listening to People to Understand Change

    Article • Middle East Law and Governance, October 2018, Brill

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  26. What Is Political Islam. By Jocelyne Cesari. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2018. vii + 232 pp. $65.00 cloth

    Article • Politics and Religion, August 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Professor jocelyne cesari, Professor Nathan J. Brown

  27. Palestine: The Unseen Conflict over the Hidden Curriculum

    Article • December 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  28. The Occupation at Fifty: A Permanent State of Ambiguity

    Article • Current History, December 2017, University of California Press

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  29. Islam and politics in post-revolutionary Egypt

    Article • February 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  30. Reconstructing the Middle East

    Article • February 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  31. Introduction

    Article • February 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  32. Islam and Constitutionalism in the Arab World

    Article • February 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  33. The Politics of Islamic Law: Local Elites, Colonial Authority, and the Making of the Muslim State. By Iza Hussin

    Article • Journal of Church and State, January 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  34. Constitutional courts and political uncertainty: Constitutional ruptures and the rule of judges. Part 2

    Article • Sravnitel noe konstitucionnoe obozrenie, January 2017, Institute for Law and Public Policy

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  35. Arguing about the Children; Arguing in Front of Them

    Article • December 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  36. Introduction

    Article • December 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  37. Religion in Public

    Article • December 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  38. Charting the Islamic Way

    Article • December 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  39. Understanding the Revival of Politics

    Article • December 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  40. Can Be Heard When Worlds Collide

    Article • December 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  41. Politics and Policy; Affect and Effect

    Article • December 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  42. The Public Politics of the Private Realm

    Article • December 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  43. The Music (and Din) of the Spheres …

    Article • December 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  44. Arab Constitutions, the Many Voices of the Public, and the Word of the One God

    Article • December 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  45. Arguing Islam after the Revival of Arab Politics

    Article • December 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  46. Constitutional courts and political uncertainty: Constitutional ruptures and the rule of judges

    Article • International Journal of Constitutional Law, October 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  47. ARGUING ABOUT FAMILY LAW IN JORDAN: DISCONNECTED SPHERES?

    Article • International Journal of Middle East Studies, September 2016, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  48. Part 2 What Basis for Statehood: Religion or Citizenship?, 2.5 Contesting Islamic Constitutionalism after the Arab Spring: Islam in Egypt’s Post-Mubārak Constitutions

    Article • August 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  49. Egypt’s Judiciary in a Postrevolutionary Era

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  50. Constitutionalism, Religion, and Education

    Article • American Behavioral Scientist, November 2015, SAGE Publications

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  51. Islamic Law and Constitutions

    Article • November 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  52. Scholarly Power, Being, and Nothingness

    Article • Review of Middle East Studies, August 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  53. 15. Constitutional Revolutions and the Public Sphere

    Article • December 2014, Columbia University Press

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  54. A Discussion of Wael Hallaq's Islam, Politics, and Modernity's Moral Predicament

    Article • Perspectives on Politics, June 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  55. Elizabeth F. Thompson, Justice Interrupted: The Struggle for Constitutional Government in the Middle East (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2013). Pp. 432. $39.95 cloth.

    Article • International Journal of Middle East Studies, April 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  56. Introduction: Democratic Beauty and Electoral Ugliness in the Middle East

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  57. Tracking the “Arab Spring”: Egypt’s Failed Transition

    Article • Journal of Democracy, October 2013, Project Muse

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  58. The Struggle over Democracy in the Middle East

    Article • July 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  59. 16. Palestine

    Article • July 2013, De Gruyter

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  60. 10. Egypt

    Article • July 2013, De Gruyter

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  61. Rule of Law, Islam, and Constitutional Politics in Egypt and Iran, The

    Article • January 2013, Project Muse

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  62. DEBATING THE ISLAMIC SHARI‘A IN 21st-CENTURY EGYPT

    Article • The Review of Faith & International Affairs, December 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  63. When Victory Is Not an Option

    Article • March 2012, Cornell University Press

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  64. The Palestinians' Receding Dream of Statehood

    Article • Current History, December 2011, University of California Press

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  65. D3. Nathan J. Brown, Report on the Prospects for Popular Mobilization in the Palestinian Territories in Light of the Arab Spring, Washington, 6 July 2011 (excerpts)

    Article • Journal of Palestine Studies, November 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  66. Remembering Our Roots

    Article • International Journal of Middle East Studies, July 2011, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  67. Introduction

    Article • International Journal of Middle East Studies, January 2011, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  68. 16. The Palestinian Authority

    Article • August 2010, De Gruyter

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  69. 10. Egypt

    Article • August 2010, De Gruyter

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  70. Caught in the Cross Fire: Egypt’s Judiciary in a Revolutionary Age

    Article • Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law Online, January 2010, Brill

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  71. Studying Palestinian Politics: Scholarship or Scholasticism?

    Article • Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs, January 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  72. Constitutionalizing Islam in the Arab World

    Article • January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  73. Kuwait’s Islamic Constitutional Movement

    Article • January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  74. Abdullahi Ahmed An‐Na‘im, . African Constitutionalism and the Role of Islam. Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. xii+199 pp. $65.00 (cloth).

    Article • The Journal of Religion, January 2009, University of Chicago Press

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  75. Reining in the Executive: What Can the Judiciary Do?

    Article • January 2009, The American University in Cairo Press

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  76. Principled or Stubborn? Western Policy toward Hamas

    Article • The International Spectator, November 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  77. Reason, Interest, Rationality, and Passion in Constitution Drafting

    Article • Perspectives on Politics, November 2008, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  78. Islamist Parties and Democracy: A Boon or a Bane for Democracy?

    Article • Journal of Democracy, July 2008, Project Muse

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  79. Chapter Two. Regimes reinventing themselves: Constitutional development in the arab world

    Article • January 2007, Brill

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  80. 7. The Palestinian National Authority: The Politics of Writing and Interpreting Curricula

    Article • November 2006, De Gruyter

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  81. Political Reform, the United States and the Arab-Israeli Conflict

    Article • April 2005, Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC)

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  82. Palestinian Politics after the Oslo Accords

    Article • November 2003, University of California Press

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  83. Conclusion

    Article • March 2003, University of California Press

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  84. Inventing a Parliament

    Article • March 2003, University of California Press

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  85. Resuming Arab Palestine

    Article • March 2003, University of California Press

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  86. Constituting and Reconstituting Palestine

    Article • March 2003, University of California Press

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  87. Civil Society in Theory and Practice

    Article • March 2003, University of California Press

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  88. Democracy, Nationalism, and Contesting the Palestinian Curriculum

    Article • March 2003, University of California Press

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  89. The Legal Framework: Disputing in, over, and outside Courts

    Article • March 2003, University of California Press

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  90. Palestinian Politics after the Oslo AccordsResuming Arab Palestine

    Article • March 2003, University of California Press

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  91. Regimes Reinventing Themselves

    Article • International Sociology, March 2003, SAGE Publications

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  92. Constitutions in a Nonconstitutional World: Arab Basic Laws and the Prospects for Accountable Government

    Article • January 2002, Project Muse

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  93. Judicial Review and the Arab World

    Article • Journal of Democracy, October 1998, Project Muse

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  94. Shariʿa and State in the Modern Muslim Middle East

    Article • International Journal of Middle East Studies, August 1997, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  95. The Rule of Law in the Arab World

    Article • June 1997, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  96. WHO ABOLISHED CORVEE LABOUR IN EGYPT AND WHY?

    Article • Past & Present, January 1994, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  97. The Precarious Life and Slow Death of the Mixed Courts of Egypt

    Article • International Journal of Middle East Studies, February 1993, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  98. Peasants and notables in Egyptian politics

    Article • Middle Eastern Studies, April 1990, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  99. Brigands and State Building: The Invention of Banditry in Modern Egypt

    Article • Comparative Studies in Society and History, April 1990, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  100. Peasant Politics in Modern Egypt

    Article • March 1990, JSTOR

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  101. Joel Beinin and Zachary Lockman, Workers on the Nile: Nationalism, Communism, Islam and the Egyptian Working Class, 1882–1954. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987. 488 pp.

    Article • International Labor and Working-Class History, January 1989, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  102. Peasants against the State: The Political Activity of the Egyptian Peasantry, 1882-1952 (First Place)

    Article • Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, July 1988, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  103. Introduction

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Nathan J. Brown

  104. CAN THE CURRENT PALESTINIAN LEADERSHIP AND ITS INSTITUTIONS END THE OCCUPATION?

    Article • JSTOR

    Professor Nathan J. Brown